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Russia Accuses US Of Fabricating Satellite Images, Creating "Wall Of Propaganda" To Incite Other Countries
It was ten days ago when on the heels of Russia's 30-minute detailed presentation of what it believes happened to MH-17, the US government released a satellite trajectory map of what it says was the flight's path and the site from which the missile was shot as well as various other satellite images "proving" the missile that took down the Boeing 777 was fired by the pro-Russian separatists. Yesterday the Russian defense ministry finally responded to the US release stating that the "satellite images Kiev published as ‘proof’ it didn’t deploy anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site carry altered time-stamps and are from days after the MH17 tragedy." In other words, the evidence the US has present to form public opinion was in the form of "altered images carrying wrong time-stamps."
The satellite image on the left was provided by the Russian Defense Ministry on 14 July, 2014. On the right is the image that Kiev claims were taken by its satellites on July 16, 2014. Image from mil.ru
RT reports that the images, which Kiev claims were taken by its satellites at the same time as those taken by Russian satellites, are neither Ukrainian nor authentic, according to Moscow's statement. The Defense Ministry said the images were apparently made by an American KeyHole reconnaissance satellite, because the two Ukrainian satellites currently in orbit, Sich-1 and Sich-2, were not positioned over the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Region shown in the pictures. The Defense ministry further alleges weather and lighting conditions in the images were not possible at the dates and times Ukraine claims they were made, the Russian ministry said.
More:
At least one of the images published by Ukraine shows signs of being altered by an image editor, the statement added.
“It’s the latest ‘masterpiece’ in the Ukrainian exercise in conspiracy theories, an attempt to divert responsibility,” the ministry said.
“It can take a deserved place next to other allegations against Russia voiced by Kiev that claimed that Russia was responsible for masterminding the Maidan protest and the tragedy in Odessa.”
“Apparently that’s why the real owners of those photos are hesitating to publish them under their own name, since it would derail the myth of the omniscience of their space reconnaissance,” the Russian ministry said.
The ministry also criticized images published by Kiev to back its allegations that Russia smuggled heavy weapons over the border and shelled Ukrainian army positions.
The images lack proper time stamps and coordinates, while Kiev didn’t bother to explain why it believes that whatever vehicles are shown in them are Russian, the statement said.
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Among the photos released is the following comparison of satellite images published by Russia and Ukraine as presented by Kiev in an attempt to dispute the authenticity of Moscow’s photos. The shadows are cast in different directions in the two images, proving that they could not have been almost at the same time two days apart, as indicated by the time stamps.
The weather is also clearly different, with the Russian image showing a cloudy day, while the image presented by Kiev shows a clear day - showing that the images could not have been taken less than an hour apart, as claimed by the time stamps. The Russian military say the actual weather conditions at the time can be easily double-checked by independent sources.
In another comparison with the images used by Ukraine, it was purposely degraded in quality in order to point out some irregularities. No such irregularities are present in the original image, the Russian military said.
The complete photo series released by the Russian Ministry of Defense can be found at this link.
Furthermore, as we reported last week, the propaganda war is not only about "who shot MH17?" but just how far the US is portraying Russia as escalating in order to frame its own escalation as an appropriate and measured response. It is here that ?Moscow again retaliated to Washington after releasing an incendiary statement, accusing the US of spinning and distorting facts to allege that Russia is testing a new cruise missile, banned by a landmark Cold War treaty. RT reports on the statement by the Russian foreign ministry:
“Once again the US is trying (and again rather clumsily) to act as a mentor, for some reason pretending to possesses the truth in the last instance and have the right to judge others. Claims are made with little to no evidence and based on warped logic, in other words presented not with further experts’ analyses in mind.”
“The purpose seems to be to create a wall of information noise to incite other countries, and to boil up a propagandist brew for the media. Or does the US administration still sincerely deceive itself that the world can take Washington’s word?”
The US report never specified how exactly Russia violated the treaty, instead offering a vague finding that: “The United States has determined that the Russian Federation is in violation of its obligations under the INF Treaty not to possess, produce, or flight-test a ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) with a range capability of 500 km to 5,500 km, or to possess or produce launchers of such missiles.”
This would be a direct violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, which banned missiles that could carry nuclear warheads in the range of 500-5,500 km. The White House described the supposed transgression as a “very serious matter” of which it has been aware since 2008, again not naming the suspect.
The media in the meantime were quick to allege the missile in question was the R-500 cruise missile with an officially stated range of 500km, which some believe can be easily modified for greater ranges.
Russia previously issued a brief response to the allegations that was dismissive, but called for further dialogue. The latest diatribe, however, makes no attempt to seek common ground, and takes pot shots at the entirety of the US approach to international treaties – repeatedly accusing Washington of duplicity and bad faith.
“American officials cite classified intelligence, when questioned about their findings. The value of such intelligence has been amply proven by the ‘Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’ myth. Such undercover research becomes even less trustworthy, with regular leaks of obviously untrue and provocative pieces of information about the conflict in eastern Ukraine, while data coming from sources beyond US control gets ignored. Years pass, but the Americans have learned nothing.”
Of course, it wouldn't be tried and true game theory retaliation without re-escalation which is precisely what Russia did when it said it exposed US hypocrisy, who themselves are developing “target practice missiles” similar to missiles in question, as well as drones, which violate the spirit of the INF Treaty.
The American report claims that “all US activities during the reporting period were consistent with the obligations set forth in the INF Treaty. Russia did not raise any new INF Treaty compliance issues during the reporting period.”
The full statement can be read here.
And while at this point Russia is correct that the "wall of information noise" has hit a level that will make any factual findings over either the events surrounding the downing of MH17 impossible, what is also quite clear is that as we forecast two weeks ago, the propaganda war between Russia and the US, up until now largely contained by the "Cold" adjective, has now escalated well into lukewarm status, and is resulting in both financial and trade victims, both on the Russian side as well as in the "West". One can hope that the ongoing escalation, which is a miniature, very concentrated replica of what happened with the arms build up during the cold war, does not also lead to a conventional or, worse, nuclear standoff, because in the new normal, the war is no longer over ideology (one would certainly have trouble identifying which is the more socialist country) but over reserve currency status. It is here that the US has the most to lose.
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Mr Obama: Suppose Alaska spends $5 Billion US Taxpayer dollars
To Topple the elected British Columbia Gov and insert thugs we'll call NuLanders?
The Violent Nulanders then attack Washington State, to make it part of Canada.
Then an airliner from Japan is shot down over once-peaceful BC? Which Party is to Blame?
The MIC State that inserted a "Tribe" of Nulanders.
The DC US wouldn't do that. Oh, wait:
"Iraq and WMD, 'yellow-cake,' mobile missile launchers." "Some dudes in caves did 9/11 not the CIA and Israel."
"SS is solvent." "Unemployment is only 6.2%." "They hate us for out freedoms." "Mission Accomplished."
"Sandy Hoax." The FBI's Boston bomb theatrical show." "You have the right to remain silent." "Voluntary tax."
"Oswald in the 6th. floor." "Serve and protect." "Muslims are the enemy." "Banks provide services and safety."
"We had to destroy the village to save the village." "...we're here to help." "The law is not about plunder."
"Vietnam was about saving Vietnam." "I did not have sex with that woman." "No new taxes."
"Guns kill people." "Pearl Harbor was a surprise." "We aren't spying on Americans." "The TSA is about air travel security."
"Corzine did nothing wrong." "NDAA" ...
And smoking is good for you...
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Desperate to find a pretextThe Russians, as usual, are meticulous and on the money with the data. But it's too late. The Washington propaganda narrative has already sunk into the atrophied brains of America's John Q Public I was at a neighborhood get-together last night and quietly witnessed classic group think about the evil Russkies shooting MH17 down and how all Russkies need to fenced in with sanctions or just have the hell blown out them. There was no discussion of an alternative veiwpoint, other than a few brief comments by me that were summarily blown off. I'm afraid, regardless of what data comes out now, it's game-set-match for the banksters in terms of PR in the USA.
IMO, the old Mark Twain saying that "a lie gets half way around the world before the truth gets its boots on" should be amended for the 21st century to "a lie gets all the way around the world in a few hours and the truth never gets its boots on".
Sad but true, However, the american sheeple do not count in global matters, russia's audience is the europeans.
I hope the Russian's audience is European politicians as the sheeple have already been got at by the MSN. No different to the US over here.
Every couple of days I text or email my old man who is a rabid Evangelical Anglican Zionist the updated figures of deaths and deaths of children in Gaza. He has ignored me for weeks, today I introduced it with "looks like you Evangelicals are going to get the war you want so bad". he replied back that I am abusive, brusing, ungrateful and in urgent need of therapy (which may be true :) ).
Sadly all I wanted was for my old man and me to be close while this shit was going down for support and wisdom and all that because I am stressed, sad and worried.
He continues to chose zionism and israel over his only son. yea blue team.
Some people would rather die than change their belief system. That's what Thomas Kuhn argued in the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. That the earth was not the center of the universe could not be accepted until the establishment invested in an older paradigm had passed on.
The closest thing to a man's soul is his belief system
Threaten that and you threaten him!
you are both right I think, perhaps I am just fortunate that new ideas exhilerated me. When I first discovered ZH for example I was addicted, it was like "whaaaaat is this?" I couldn't believe people thought and spoke (wrote) like they do here and I couldn't get enough even if it was bit intimidating at times. It was fearful exhileration, some people bungee jump I suppose.
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." -- Bertrand Russell
But then another way to think about any supposed evidence provided by the DC US and friends is summed up in two words:
"Sandy Hoax."
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To be a modern propagandist only means to fill new messages with new truths.
A slight variation in the translation of a former propagandist
Modern sein heißt nichts anderes als ewige Inhalte in wechselnde neue Formen zu füllen. - Joseph Goebbels
They haven't finished doctoring them yet at their Hollywood studios that are complicit with them...THX is busy working on the new Star Wars films ya know..may take another month till we get the best copy removing instructions from the tower to divert.
canadian OSCE observer says the MH-17 cockpit is riddled with bulletholes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-2nV-I1B0
Poreshenko wants to replace the parliament, calls them traitors:
http://rt.com/news/159508-kiev-terrorist-organizations-donetsk/
That is a huge piece of truth, I am amazed the CBC allowed this man to speak! I've seen a lot of pieces in photo and video form. It seems clear that an air to air cannon, 30MM shot the plane up in royal fashion. No, many of those holes can NOT be shrapnel from a large Surface to Air BUK or even the rod filled small air to air warhead.
My wild guess, from all the pieces I have seen, and I've seen lots, is that this plane was attacked by one of those 2 SU attack planes seen by hundreds of witnessess. Many reported hearing the cannon fire in the air before the plane seemed in trouble. There is a chance that one air to air missile was launched when cannon fire failed to bring the plane down. This fits with what ground witnessess heard and saw. One wing seems to bear either angled 30 cannon rounds, or direct hits by rods from an air to air missile.
Given the two Ukrainian SU 25 ground attack planes had to fly near the limits of their altitude capabilities to reach the airliner, the command by Kiev ATC to drop 2-3,ooo feet lower on approach to the battle zone makes clear sense.
I am saying I think, unless I see new and different pictures and evidence, that one or both SU -25 attacked this plane.
The world should be asking what the Kiev ATC tapes were stolen by secret police. America has not asked for their return.
I follow rebel military as close as I can. I never saw before hand any evidence that rebels had a radar to track and do fire control. They may have had one captured BUK, but mainly useless without a radar. Plus Ukraine military reported to Kiev that rebels did NOT capture any BUK.
What are we left with? Obama running his fucking mouth.
This Canadian Guy just blew the USA and Ukraine lies out of the water. A person can see the cannon shell holes all fucking over! Missile shrapnel is not able to poke nice neat round holes in lines across a plane.
For what its worth, according to the Jane's Defense link below, the Ukrainian air force also has, as of June 4th, active SU-27 and MIG-29 fighters that could have more easily done the deed than a SU-25, which has a service ceiling of only ~23000 feet.
http://www.janes.com/article/38772/ukraine-returns-combat-aircraft-to-service
The SU-27 has a service ceiling of ~62000 feet while the MIG-29 has a service ceiling of ~59000 feet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-29
There is also a modified SU25 version that has a higher service ceiling.
Lets face it, this was 100% planned so the planes used were fitted and expected to operate up to around 30-33000 feet. I believe there was a report of an Ukrainian pilot claiming his plane was used by a polish pilot to shoot down the airliner. Dont have the link to it though. Doesnt sound far fetched to me.
And as discussed previously on ZH threads...How much do you want to bet these are the same fighter pilots responsible for the shoot down?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/23/ukraine-crisis-donetsk-idUSL6N...
KIEV, July 23 (Reuters) - Kiev said two of its fighter jets were shot down over the rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, and the missiles that brought them down might have been fired from Russia.
Can you say, "Burying the evidence"?
Hope this guy doesn't drive a late model merc.
When it gets serious, they have to die.
If it was a headon attack it was, with at least an 800mph closing speed, pretty impressive shooting.
Any thought on why the SU25 and not SU27?
Also why does the 'SU25' not appear on the Russian radar plots until after the event?
Clearly, the spin will be that the Canadian did not have the technical knowledge, about different types of penetration holes in aircraft, to form that judgement. Oh, and he has now gone on an 're-education' course.
Sent in for the coup de grace, after the missile failed to bring it down ?
Seems the most likely sequence.
Which would make it totally premeditated, and planned ,with CIA written all over it..
If the cunts in DC can't even photoshop a birth certificate without fucking it up, what hope have they of fabricating something that has shit like the weather to take into consideration?
Mind you, with the MSM in their pocket they can dump any old shit on the sheeple and get away with it.
"Yesterday the Russian defense ministry finally responded to the US (releases of anti-Russian propaganda.")
No, Sir, that is not accurate. Giving the US and its allies plenty of rope to hang their government and officials is NOT finally responding.
Netherlands and Australia are very aware which side is preventing their inspectors from examining the crash site and retrieving the remains of their citizens.
The black boxes in London have told their tales.
And a couple of weeks ago, the US, having realized they were too far out on the limb, began saying that the separatists didn't know it was a passenger plane.
No, the Kremlin didn't suddenly find its tongue.
It waited till the time was right and NATO was gaging on all the lies of Washington and Kiev.
Reports that a shooting war broke out between NATO wannabes Azerbaijan and Russian influenced Armenia today in Nagorno-Karabakh.
http://www.ridus.ru/news/164862
Translated headline from MK news in Russia translated as "Preparing for War Defense Ministry massively encourages reservist teachings".
http://www.mk.ru/politics/2014/08/01/gotovsya-k-voyne-minoborony-rf-mass...
I can't vouch for MK as a source or if in fact the Russians have callled up reservists for drills from August to November. Hopefully some of our Russians friends, and Boris too can provide insights.
Don't want to be alarmist but I think it is on now.
Mobilizing the reserves just means it will all be over by Christmas.
Which Christmas remains unknown.
The first world war ended by Christmas so its all good then.
I think you will find it was from the Two Su-25 fighters shadowing the plane.
“Support MH17 Truth”: OSCE Monitors Identify “Shrapnel and Machine Gun-Like Holes” indicating Shelling. No Evidence of a Missile Attack. Shot Down by a Military Aircraft?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/support-mh17-truth-osce-monitors-identify-shrapnel-like-holes-indicating-shelling-no-firm-evidence-of-a-missile-attack/5394324
Revelations of German Pilot: Shocking Analysis of the “Shooting Down” of Malaysian MH17. “Aircraft Was Not Hit by a Missile”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/german-pilot-speaks-out-shocking-analysis-of-the-shooting-down-of-malaysian-mh17/5394111
Deleted BBC Report. “Ukrainian Fighter Jet Shot Down MHI7?, Donetsk Eyewitnesses
http://www.globalresearch.ca/deleted-bbc-report-ukrainian-fighter-jet-shot-down-mhi7-donetsk-eyewitnesses/5393631summary of the argument for a S25 shooting down MH17, and cover up.
Initial Reports
A Spanish air controller says he overheard that the Ukraine Interior Ministry ordered the shooting down of MH17.
The Kiev Interior Ministry has seized the air controller tapes and not released them for independent analysis.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/spanish-air-controller-kiev-borispol-airpor...
See the TV interview in Spanish
http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/127516-amenazar-controlador-esp...
More Witnesses & a Possible BBC Coverup
http://www.globalresearch.ca/deleted-bbc-report-ukrainian-fighter-jet-sh...
Later Evidence Found Apparently Supports Initial Reports
A German Analyst says bullet-hole evidence clearly shows MH17 was shot down by Kiev SU25 jets.
photo of entry and exit impact holes of SU25 30-mm bullets in the MH17 cockpit area:
http://www.anderweltonline.com/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/Cockpit-MH017.pdf
http://www.globalresearch.ca/german-pilot-speaks-out-shocking-analysis-o...
Mistaken(?) Opportunity & Reputed Motive
Russian president Putin's plane (kind of) looks like MH17,
and it was flying (sort of) in the general area.
Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is a long time
key supporter of the proven corrupt Yulia Tymoshenko,
and Yulia has repeatedly stated she would like to murder all Russians.
The Ukraine Interior Ministry has been taking guidance from the CIA and even personally from the CIA director John Brennan. False flag terror operations, assassinations, and attempted assassinations of heads of state have admittedly been conducted by the CIA in the past.
Bottom line, as much as we try to do diligent research, we remain mere pawns in what has become a global theater of operations... Depending on said research and some form or other of bias, one may surmise with relative confidence who the players are - CIA, Mossad, MI5, etc. - but what now seems certain to me is that our world has become theirs for the taking....
America: Where the only vestage of manufacturing is in the fabrication sector. Apply now!
Jew-S-A, Jew-S-A, Jew-S-A !!!
When 1/2 the government has Israeli dual citizenship, you know you're fucked.
Important to differentiate Jew from Zionist. Zionists are anybody who supports the nation of Israel. You don't have to be Jewish to be a Zionist.Not all Jews support Israel, on account of its divisive birth on the bodies of ethnically cleansed Palestinians in 1948. Kind of like not all Christians support the Vatican. Best to save your anger for the Zionists. And you won't be called a racist by doing so.
Totally agree
Most Jews are not Zionists and hate the Zionists for what they are doing in the name of their faith.
Zionists are the scumbags and extremists that you find in most large organisations
Unfortunately the US Senate is controlled by Zionists
GREAT DEMOCRACY ....
How can you know what most jews believe? How to tell one is a zionist and one isn't? I doubt any jews in the U.S. would support a suspension of U.S. aid to israel.
I know a half dozen liberal Jews who think the Jewish state was a mistake to begin with. Palestinians can't be citizens. "Israel" is an inherently racist operation. It's UN charter needs to be overhauled. The Zionists INTENDED it to be a lightning rod for discontent across the region. The nation of Israel was created so that it can be destroyed, and upon its ashes a new Jerusalem and temple can be built. That is the Death Cult Secret Society Zionist program. A critical component of the NWO.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." — David Ben-Gurion
Wahoo,
Don't be so sure.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/not-in-our-namejews-stage-massive-anti-war-...
Hamfistedidiot
More refinement
Zionists support Israel both as a Jewish state
AND an expansionist (by any means) state.
Some Jews may support Israel as a secular state within the borders prescribed in UN resolutions (which have always been vetoed by the USA).
Troubling that the Obama administration & Congress have recently pledged US support
for Israel's existence as a Jewish state
(notwithstanding the separation of church and state in the US Constitution).
Up until Obama, US never pledged support beyond the national existence of Israel.
I don't know if the US government has enough credibility to incite anyone other than the international cabal of banksters.
Why wont they release the cockpit voice recordings? How hard can audio be?
Are there any countries idiotic enough to gobble up this obviously fake 'evidence"?!...
Already gobbled by UK and the Dutch.( Black Box and Autopsy)
Dont expect any real investigation .Only cover ups.
Methinks Malaysia/Malaysian Politicians likely to have been blackmailed ( location of all their funds known to NSA) and have no choice but to go along.Not once with MH370 but also with MH17.
I would also be the least bit surprised if another MH flt is again targetted.
oh, the irony of the Amerikan propaganda machine.
From: Paul Craig Roberts
"U.S. Holds the World Record of Killings of Innocent Civilians — John McMurtry"
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/02/u-s-holds-world-record-killings-innocent-civilians-john-mcmurtry/
Everything from the US is fake and photshopped, everything from Rusiia is gospel truth, everything can be solved if the joooo owned Obama wouuld just give the peace lover Putin whatever he wants.
Slightly hyperbolic, but basically accurate.
Another instance of a fuckup similar to Obala's birth certificate.
Some say the first victim of war is the truth. However, that assumes that truth was present before the war.
Conspiracy
To breath together.
My God people, wake up! It's worse than you think. There are people right now rigging the next false flag. We are being terrorized by Ebola. Dark days. Please, please whistleblowers speak. MK Mind control freaks are being deployed. Vials, disruption, satanic machinations. Tivo each national news program. Compare them. Note the similarity of delivery and content. Note how the horrendous shit is bookended by a feel good, difference maker emotional story: these are the cement galoshes sinking your mind. Try to detoxify. Seriously. We're going to need some clear heads. Long live the Constitution and the United States of America. Old and new enemies are at work.
Real eyes . . .
Realize . . . .
Real Lies . . . . .
The big question is why has it taken so long for the CVR to be downloaded and made public. This process should take no more than a day at most including translation. I smell a rat!
Did Kiev redirect MH 17 over a dangerous area or did Kiev allow the Captain of MH17 divert around bad weather and over a dangerous area? Either way Kiev would be culpable. Getting the truth out of the west seems as hard as squeezing blood from a stone.
I am very frustrated. I can only imagine how the bereaved are feeling.
The Macine gun like holes shown in pictures of fuselage fragments (available on the web) don't look to me like they came from a cylindrical projectile. Just my non-expert point of view, although I have fire many weapons at steel sheet targets and the holes are quite distinctive and round even when striking the steel sheet at an angle.
Quite right.
When it was first announced that the MH17 black boxes were being sent to Farnborough in the UK for analysis, I immediately knew that the findings would be subject to delays and line x line scrutiny by the British government's shadowy spooks and that nothing will be allowed out that contradicts the Western narrative on how and who was responsible for downing MH17, ie: Putin/Russia.
This was based upon a long history of investigations and inquiries in the UK covering a wide range of issues that end up being nothing more than a political stitch-up to hide the truth and disinform the public, aka "a whitewash".
Although the senior judges who get called to run public inquiries are described by the political elites as "independent", they are anything but that. First, the elites always select the "right" judge. Second, the investigation brief is carefully articulated to narrow the scope of investigation. Third, long delays are introduced to get the matter off the headlines, pushed down the news agenda and forgotten about. Hey presto.
You can be sure that is exactly what's being played out now. After all, PM Cameron has spent the last three weeks shouting and screaming into convenient MSM microphones about Putin's direct responsibility for MH17 and the need to increase sanctions. He will never allow himself to be proven wrong by inconvenient facts.
MSM should be asking questions about these delays, but are not.
The delays that have occurred already in publicising the CVR findings will in itself raise serious doubts about what's being stitched-up at Farnborough.
False flag, false flag, brooock, broock! You guys are like a bunch of Russian parrots. Someone behind Zerohedge is just
a Russian propaganda machine. All your fine work on finance and the economy is going up in smoke as you revel in parroting
anti-Ukraine propaganda. Five years of a good reputation are just gone now. Sad, sad, sad. I expected more, but when you
are just the mouthpiece for a foreign master, nothing better than this can be expected.
The elephant in the room for any discussion of finance and economy is the USA's debt and Fiat currency. All of the other talk about interest rates, QE, Taper, P/E, unemployment, Obamacare, etc. is just background noise relative to the real issue which is the possible impending collapse of the global dollar-based financial system.
IMO it's about time that ZH got its head out of the weeds and dealt with the real elephant in the room rather than continuing to gossip about whether Janet Yellen is getting diddled by Lloyd Blankenfein, and whether the Taper will eventually pop the stock market bubble.
During the last year the BRICS, led by Russia, have finally decided to start slowly playing their hand against the dollar to bring it down gently without catastrophically wrecking the global economy, and thus severely damaging themselves. It's no small coincidence that the USA (along with its EU puppets), in its obvious desperation to maintain global leadership, is wetting its panties and has rapidly "pivioted" away from Middle East Jihadists as the main "enemy" to the main "enemy" now being Russia, who essentially is the front runner for the BRICS and their plan to de-dollarize the world.
Ukraine is the first public front in the "war" the USA and its EU puppets are waging to try to maintain their global financial leadership. If the USA and EU can successfully rip Ukraine away from Russia and disrupt Russia both financially and politically, resulting in regime change, they probably believe they can drive a fatal stake in the heart of Russia (and the other BRICS) and the attempt to de-dollarize the world. Ukraine is therefore the 'canary in the coal mine" and this is why ZH has properly focused a lot of attention on it. I would argue that the USA's/ EU's confrontation with Russia over Syria last year was but a test run for both Washington and Moscow for Ukraine, which is on Russia's doorstep.
Forget all of the Wallstreet and Washington political noise, the real game is now on. It's probably going to end in either collapse of the dollar-based global financial system or, in a worst case scenario, in global nuclear war. The only question about collapse of the dollar is whether it will be catastrophic or managed and systematic. This quite simply is the seminal issue of our times.
Zippy
You may want to reconsider what you believe may or may not be true:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-repeatedly-lied-about-satellite...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-02/how-sell-war
The only thing I am sure about: one can't be sure of anything..
Read the article: Putin Controls the Fate of Ukraine, but Who Controls Putin?
Order out of chaos
Really?
Denial is not the same as ignorance.
You really contend you don't know:
about NSA spying, US black sites and torture,
or that
Ukraine was offered a deal whereby Ukraine would have to submit to IMF austerity
and NATO policies?
After the deal was rejected, the US backed the violent overthrow of an elected government shortly before new elections were occur.
That NATO has not been expanding.
That NATO missile bases on Russia's border threaten Russian security by an enhanced US first strike capability.
That US leaders and Pentagon doctrine have stated they would use a first strike to protect supposed US "core interests".
That the US interventions in the Mideast and elsewhere are related to protecting the petrodollar racket.
That Obama has made hubristic speeches about US "exceptionalism".
etc. and etc.
Really, you know nothing?
Or is that just an excuse to let warmongers and financial swindlers off the hook?
Really? An abstruse epistemological de facto defense of the status quo by claiming you cannot know if any criticisms are true?
Putin is so much more believable than Obama.
sarc/on
(SARC ON) The USA would not fabricate information. We're the good guys! (SARC OFF)
We have not been the “good guys” for a very long time.
The sinister nature of the regime (US Government and the controlling Oligarchy) has only recently been outdone by the constitutional fidelity of their beltway staffers. Perhaps by letting the politicians “tell them how to do their jobs” - nodding three bags full... and doing exactly what they are told <grin>, or perhaps a well planned “oops” or two that derails without risking their retirement, or perhaps by allowing the gifted brown noses to “lead the way” and then watch the scum bags scurry like rats trying to spin failure into yet another optical “success”.
So, one can only hope that the next domestic false flag the controlling oligarchy orchestrates is planned and executed in such a manner that it will be easy to prove to main street that they have been manipulated once again and before another round of mass murder and wanton destruction commences.
The dollar will collapse soon, once that occurs – their abilities will be severely limited. Until that time, I salute all those faceless bureaucrats who are doing their best (or worst <grin>) to hobble the military-security-industrial-bankster complex.
Well done and Thank You! :-)
A Dutch/Belgian site is saying that USAF Major General Randy A. Kee (Director, Strategy and Policy, Headquarters U.S. European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany) so not NATO but US was killed in an ambush in Ukraine.
USAF Major-General Randy Kee and the column he was part of got ambushed 50 north west of Slaviansk. Three other officers KIA.
http://herstelderepubliek.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/amerikanen-sneuvelen-...
If true, big development. Rumour is he is in charge of the 'ATO'.
Clearly an understatement if true.
This is official video his trip to MK Airbase in Rumania, a transit base for planes recently returning from Afganistan, that seems to be being upgraded for use beyond that task.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co93x0EN6LU
If the news often seems skewed lately note this possible reason. For decades a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, 2013 that taboo came silently to an end with the implementation of a new law passed in January.
This unleashes thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption. This "reform" was criticized by many human rights activist as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/07/when-propaganda-and-surveillance....
Obama's WMD's. Check this out. Picture of US Spy Satellite KH-11 USA-161 over Ukraine just before MH17 went down in twitter link below.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuLXcVpIcAAtKoJ.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennan
They know who did it. The LA Times quoted US officials as saying it was a 'Ukrainian Defector'. They just didn't want to admit it was from their side.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-ukraine-intelligence-us-201407...
Then award winning Iran/Contra reporter also quoted his source who said they have pictures but it looks like the Ukrainian Army..and that there are beer bottle strewn throughout the site.
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/20/what-did-us-spy-satellites-see-in-u...
Now Ron Paul backed up thsi up a bit. They obviously have close up pictures but refuse to show them. Why?
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/august/03/wh...